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Compass Sticky Footer Mixin

When you’re dealing with browsers and markup, content tends to float to the top of the window by default. In most cases there is enough content on the page to keep the footer at the bottom of the window but, if a page doesn’t occupy the full height of the window, the footer is going to float right up to the bottom of the content creating an unattractive empty space below.
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Talk: Open Source Software Development in Higher Education

Talk: I’ll be giving a talk about the role of open source development in higher ed institutions at the upcoming Tennessee Higher Education Information Technology Symposium in Chattanooga Tennessee. The talk will focus on the experience I had with the UTHSC-WPCAS plugin developed for UTHSC and encourage Higher-Ed tech professionals to consider open sourcing their work and to consider open source options when making IT decisions.
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Grunterie – Another Foundation Theme for WordPress

![Grunterie Screenshot](https://georgespake.com/wp- content/uploads/2014/04/screenshot.png)

Foundation ’s hot right now and I swear by it. Having used both Bootstrap and Foundation, I quickly decided that Foundation was the framework for me and I use it for everything. It’s really clean, easy to work with and I don’t have to fight with it to get what I want.

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Debugging SASS with Chrome Dev Tools

Disclaimer, I got this to work but these are notes from my first attempt so some of this may be overkill. A lot of the information I found was over a year old so I’m probably using some work-arounds that are no longer necessary. I’ll be back to make corrections as needed. If you notice anything wrong please let me know in the comments. For the most official info check out Working with CSS Preprocessors on the Google developer pages.
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SSH in to multiple Vagrant VM’s in Windows using PuPHPet and Port Forwarding

Update March 10th, 2014: After spending an extra five minutes this morning trying to ssh in with my the virtual machine IP, instead of using my local IP with the forwarded port, I was able to get it work. I don’t know why this hasn’t worked for me in the past unless I’ve just been typing the wrong IP or something. In retrospect, assuming the VM IP was 192.168.56.101, I may have just inadvertently been using 192.168.1.101. So, from now on, I’ll be using the VM IP for ssh but I won’t go as far as to say that it’s wrong to use your local IP and forwarded ports. If you want to ssh in to multiple vagrant boxes on the same IP, local or otherwise, port forwarding makes that possible and PuPHPet makes it really easy to set up.
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Featured Work | Designing My Logo

I’ve always been fascinated by logo design. A good logo can carry a brand for a very long time; it’s not something that’s meant to change frequently so the opportunity to design one doesn’t come along very often. There are a lot of things to keep in mind when designing a logo. Obviously it needs to be eye catching and iconic but the designer also needs to consider how the logo will fit into various compositions, how it will be used across mediums and how it will look in monochrome.
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